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47th Year 16 Pages MEDFORD, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, JULY 30, 1952.
No. 112
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FLYING SAUCER CHASERS Standing in front of their F-94's, jet crewmen discus mission which
sent them swooping over Washington, D. C, in pursuit of elusive "flying saucers." Air Force "saucer"
experts have been summoned to Washington for a conference on the second appearance of mysterious
objects over the capital within a week. Left to right: Lt. F. Lamar Watson, Lt. John Fagan and Capt.
John C. Casey, all of the 142nd Fighter-Interceptor Squadron, New Castle, Del.
FLYING SAUCER! With count-
, less flying saucer reports popping
vp across the nation, Alan C.
Dumas. 22, of Culver City, Calif.,
comes forth with the above photo
of a saucer he claims to have
! seen over a year ago. "It looked
like two straw hats stuck together
with a dome on the top and bot
tom," reports Dumas.
Ike, Republicans
Schedule Meetings
Denver (U.R) Dwight D. Eis
enhower and other top-level Re
publicans will hold a series of
week-end meetings here to lay
the groundwork for a militant
and "h a r d-hitting campaign,"
Eisenhower's headquarters an
nounced Wednesday.
One of the purposes of the
meeting was evidently to work
for harmony among dissident
factions of the GOP and extend
a welcoming hand to supporters
of Sen. Robert A. Taft of Ohio.
One of the Republicans sched
uled to attend the conference
was Sen. Everett M. Dirksen, R-
111., who placed Taft's name in
nomination for the presidency at
the Republican National Con
vention early this month. Taft
lost the nomination to Eisen
hower on the first ballot.
Gladiolus Festival
Parade Friday Morning
Grants Pass The floral float
parade which will open the an
nual Gladiolus Festival here will
start at 10:30 a.m. Friday, it
-was announced today by the
commission in charge. The flow
er show, at the junior high
school auditorium, will be open
ed by the "Glad Queen" and her
court at noon, and will be open
all afternoon and evening, from
10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday.
The Queen's ball will be at
9 p.m. Saturday in the Memor
ial auditorium.
Astoria (U.R) Columbia riv
er fishermen were gillnetting
for salmon Wednesday as the
summer season reopened after
a 15-day closure.
Corvallis (U.R) Corvallis
milk prices will be increased
one-cent a quart Friday, making
the retail price 24 cents. There
will be corresponding increases
in cream prices.
Gen. Grow Faces Official
Reprimand and Suspension
Fort Meade, Md. (U.R)
Maj. Gen. Robert W. Grow, for
mer U.S. military attache in
Moscow, Wednesday faced an of
ficial reprimand and suspension
from command for six months
for letting his "war now" diary
fall into Communist hands.
A high -' ranking military
court martial Tuesday found
Grow guilty of two offenses
improperly recording classified
military information in private
records and failing to safeguard
properly classified military in
formation. ' .
Subject to Review
The Courts Martial sentence,
however, will be subject to re
view by the commanding gener
al of the 2nd army, the judge
advocate general and the Court
of Military Appeals before it
becomes final.
: The court martial, which con
ducted the five - day trial in the
strictest secrecy, acquitted Grow
on a third charge, which was de
FLYING SAUCERS
CLAIMED 'PHONY'
Washington (U.R) The Air
Force offered Wednesday a com
bination of summer heat waves
and optical and radar illusions
as a plausible explanation of the
latest flurry of "flying saucers,
Intelligence officers ridiculed
the notion that the mysterious
objects m the sky hail from
Armistice Chance
Said To Be Slim
Seoul. Korea, Thursday (U.R)
The United Nations early
Thursday hurled the biggest
night bombing raid of the
Korean war at a vast Commu
nis! war factory only four
miles from the border of Red
China.
Seoul (U.R) Gen. James A.
Van Fleet, commander of the
U.S. 8th Army and United Na
tions ground forces in Korea
said Wednesday recent trends in
Korea indicated "less chance of
an armistice than ever before."
Moreover, Van Fleet warned,
the Communist strength in
trotfps still is "close to 1,000,000"
despite ' recent thinning out of
enemy lines.
"But I think we can defeat any
enemy concentration at any
point on the front," he said.
Van Fleet said he was con
vinced the Communists' needed
an armistice in June and Novem
ber, 1951, because they were "in
bad shape both times" and were
worried about the winter.
"Well," he said, "they got
through the winter and they
have since been a very tough
trader at the armistice table."
Farouk Will Take
Family to America
Isle of Capri, Italy (U.R)
Exiled King Farouk was report
ed Wednesday to be planning to
take his wife and their six-
month-old son Egypt's new
King Ahmed Fuad II to the
United States within one to
three weeks.
Farouk, forced off his throne
by a military coup last Satur
day after a 16-year reign, :pent
his first night as an exile on for
eign soil Tuesday night with his
family in a 25-room, 14-bath-room
suite in the swank Eden
Paradiso hotel at Anacapri.
He was understood to have
told Italian government officials
and his personal friend, Italian
travel agent Pier Busseti, that
he planned to stay at Capri only
one to- three weeks before leav
ing for America.
Child, Nine Days Old,
Displays Two Teeth
Astoria (U.R) When James
Stanley Pearson Jr. smiled Wed
nesday he showed the world two
gleaming white teeth.
Now, this isn't unusual for a
healthy young tyke. But Jimmy
is only nine days old.
scribed by Army information of
ficers as "more serious" and in
volved classified information
that could not be made public
Grow's ' diary - was allegedly
stolen and photographed by
Communist agents while the 57-year-old
general was in Frank
furt, Germany on ' official bus
iness. '
Passages Exploited
Communists j exploited mili
tant passages in the diary to sur
port their "warmongering' charg
es against the United States. Ra
dio Moscow also claimed that
the diary proved that Grow was
a "spy" engaged in "subversive
activities" within Russia.
Exerpts from the diary as pub
lished by the Communists
quoted Grow as advocating
"War! As soon as possible now!"
and by "hitting below the belt,"
if necessary. Grow was also
quoted . as saying he travelled
through parts of Moscow look
ing for 'anti-aircraft positions
and likely military targest
other plants or Russia or pose
a menace to the United States,
Confident of Explanation
They were confident that new
scientific investigations with
powerful telescopes and special
cameras would explain away the
objects as "physical phenomena"
such as mirages. And, maybe,
cure the nation of sauceritis.
As for three flocks of objects
sighted by radar over Washing
ton in the . past 10 days, Maj.
Gen. John A. Samford, Air Force
director of intelligence, told a
news conference late Tuesday
that "my own mind is satisfied"
they resulted from temperature
inversion.
Explained in Detail
This was explained in detail
later by two electronics experts
from the Air Technical Intelli
gence Center, Wright - Patterson
Air Force Base, Dayton, O.
They were Dr. B. L. Griffing
and Capt. Roy James.
Air temperatures, they point
ed out, decreases with altitude.
When a warm air mass passes
over a relatively cooler one, tem
perature temporarily increases
and an "inversion layer" of
warm air is formed.
Radar Beams Bent
This inversion will cause ra
dar beams to bend earthward
Radar impulses then bounce off
ground "targets." What then ap
pears as unidentified "blips" or
tiny white lights on radarscopes
are not objects in the sky but
objects on the ground.
With a large inversion, street
or automobile lights may be sim
ilarly reflected, as if in forma
tion, on clouds. If there is suffi
cient wind velocity or turbu
lence, these lights will appear to
dance or "dog fight" with the
phenomenal gyrations attributed
to "flying saucers."
New Scientific Turn
To settle the "flying saucer"
mystery once and for all, Sam-
ford disclosed that the Air Force
investigation is going to take a
new, scientific turn.
Now the Air Force is going to
concentrate on some precise
means of measurement of the
eerie objects so that scientists
can be handed "manageable ma
terial" for analysis, Samford
said.
One device to be used is a
special camera that will photo
graph the objects and break into
its constituents the light- they
give off. These basic colors then
may be compared with colors
cast by known objects say, a
neon sign or an airport approach
light so the source of "flying
saucer" light can be determined.
Another device is the Schmidt
telescope, with which vast por
tions of the. sky and what goes
on there during the night can be
recorded.
Portland (U.R) Newspaper
switchboards the police station
and sneriit s ottice were
swamped with calls Tuesday
night from persons who reported
sighting flying saucers swarming
through the sky over Portland.
Even filter center observers re
ported seeing "things" within a
50-mile radius of the city. How
ever, a radar check showed noth
ing unusual and a jet plane from
the Portland Air Base could find
nothing resembling the saucers.
Battle Casualties
Increase in Korea
Washington (U.R) The De
fense Department reported Wed
nesday' that American battle
casualties in Korea now total
113,668, an increase of 305 over
last week.
The casualties include those
whose next of kin were notified
through last Friday. It normally
requires from one to three
weeks to notify next of kin. '
The casualties included 19,979
dead, 81,315 wounded, 9.507
missing, 1,482 captured, 1,385
previously missing but returned
to service.
Silverton (U.R) Maurice A.
Cothran, Seaside, was killed
Monday when a log rolled over
him while he was working at
the Elk Creek operation of the
Crown Zellerbach Corp. near
Silverton.
Ten Forest Fires
Started Last Nigh!
By Lightning Storm
All But One Under
Control; Rain Helps
At least 10 forest fires were
started on state and federal
land in southern Oregon by a
lightning storm which swept
over the area yesterday after
noon and last night, according
to national forest and state for
est patrol officials.
All of the fires were reported
to be under control this morn
ing with the exception of a blaze
in Klamath county in the vicin
ity of Aspen butte, where smoke
jumpers from the Cave Junction
crew were slated to be dropped
at 11:30 a.m. today. It was the
first time this year that the
smoke jumpers had been called
on a fire.
Rainfall Helps
Scattered rainfall in the moun
tains helped to control at least
two of the first, both on state
land. Crews were sent to both of
the blazes. There is also the pos
sibility of "sleeper"' fires break
ing out after the woods dry out.
One such fire, believed start
ed by a lightning storm last
week was being mopped up to
day near Desolation swamp,
three miles north of Buck lake.
Of the seven fires started last
night on federal lands, seven
were in the Klamath district and
the other two were in the vicin
ity of Bessie Rock lookout in the
Butte Falls district.
The storm apparently center
ed south of here in norinern
California. Verus Dahlin, Rogue
River National forest fire con
trol officer, reported that sev
eral fires were burning in Siski
you National forest and smoke
jumpers had been dispatched to
some of the blazes.
Bureau Reports Rain
' The Medford weather bureau
stated that heavy rain probably
fell in some mountainous areas
Heavy precipitation was repori
pri in Talent and Central Point
and light rainfall was noted in
Medford and Ashland.
The cloud seeders working
under contract for the Rogue
Valley Traffic association had
two planes in the air for a total
of about two hours last iugm
They, described the clouds as
havins a "high hail .potential."
They seeded clouds, the tops of
which reached about zu.uuu ieei,
for an estimated 30 minutes and
no hail fall was reported in the
vallev.
The weather bureau this
morning forecast more lightning
storms for this area tomgnt ana
Thursday night. Last nigm s
storm, which "brewed in tne
area north of Redding, Calif.,
was typical of such storms for
Thi time of the year, tney saia.
The storm was mostly along the
dorr a Nevada and Cascade
mountains and only the edge
reached here. No rainfall was re
ported from Klamath Falls and
the eastern fringe of the storm
apparently was in the mountains
west of the city.
By UNITED PRESS
Western Oregon will be kept
comparatively cool through
Thursday by morning clouds
and ocean breezes, but southern
and eastern Oregon will remain
warm, with some temperatures
up to 100 degrees.
The weather bureau said sun
nv. warm weather, however,
would continue the fire danger
over much of the state's forest
areas. Humidities were expect
ed to drop to near 20 per cent in
the southern part or tne state.
Safety of Americans
Requested in Iran
Tehran U.R) United States
Ambassador Loy Henderson has
asked the Iranian government
to guarantee the safety of Amer
icans in Iran as the result of
anti - American incidents, it was
reported Wednesday.
The newspaper Keyhan said
Henderson asked the assurances
of Premier Mohammed Mossa
degh and was told that Ameri
cans could rest assured the auth
orities would protect them.
Centra Point Soldier
Among Rotation Troops
San Francisco U.R) The
USNS Gen. E. T. Collins was
scheduled to arrive in San Fran
cisco Wednesday with 38 Ore
gonians among the 2,849 army
rotation combat personnel from
Korea aboard.
They include:
Pfc. Frank E. Valencia, Cen
tral Point.
(Pfc. Valencia could not be lo
cated in local directories.)
Newspaper Editor
Absent Without Leave
Walla Walla (U.R) Warden
John Cranor looked for an
other editor of the Washing
ton state penitentiary inmate
publication Wednesday after
Gene Kensler quit the job
without notice. Kensler and a
photographer were sent from
the prison to the state game
farm across the street to do a
feature story. The photog
rapher returned with his pic
lures and casually reported.
Kensler had "just kept going.".
Threat of Coal
Strike Official;
To Schedule Talks
Washington (U.R) Open
ing of new wage contract talks
in the coal industry became of
ficial Wednesday but with no
help from United Mine Workers
President John L. Lewis who
brought them about.
The National Coal Associa
tion published a letter dated
July 22 from Lewis to Harry
Moses, president of the Bitumin
ous Coal Operators' association,
saying, "I herewith give formal
notice of termination of agree
ment as provided ..." in the
contract.
Miners Free To Strike .
The present contract allows
either side to end the agree
ment with 60 days' notice after
February 1. The Lewis move
last week leaves his miners free
to strike September 20 if no
new contract is signed by then.
Lewis has refused to confirm
that he served notice on the in
dustry although coal operators
reported the move the day his
letter was received.
Moses also has refused com
ment on the letter, but his reply
to Lewis was revealed today. He
said his association "authorized
me further to represent them in
these negotiations.". :He pointed
out that the Lewis notice "fixes
no terminal date,. suggest
that this agreement be reached
by direct consultation over the
telephone." ' ..
Initial Talks. Private
Both Lewis and Moses have
stated they do not want the ne
gotiations to become a "three
ring circus" and are planning to
hold initial talks in private.
Lewis is expected to try to
get his miners a wage increase
at least matching the 21-cent
"package" given the CIO Steel
workers. He also may demand
higher royalty payments into
the miners' welfare fund, now
30 cents per ton.
Communists Protest
Killing of Prisoner
Panmunjom, Korea (U.R)
Peiping Radio said Wednesday
night that Communist truce del
egates have lodged a "strong
protest" against the killing and
wounding of North Korean pris
oners of war at the Nonsan
Camp last Sunday. .
The Chinese Communist
broadcast said the protest was
lodged with the United Nations
by Gen. Nam II, chief Red truce
negotiator. j
The United Nations announc
ed earlier that one Korean was
killed and seven were wounded,
the result of beatings adminis
tered by fellow prisoners in the
compound. All the prisoners in
the compound had said they
would forcibly resist repatria
tion to the Bamboo Curtain.
Grants Pass Man Dies
As Result of Burns
Grants Pass (U.R) Carl
Penry, 66, janitor at the Kelp
Chevrolet company here, died
Wednesday at Josephine Gener
al hospital of burns suffered
when an explosion and fire de
stroyed the paint shop at the
company garage.
The explosion and fire broke
out about 1:30 p.m. Tuesday but
Grants Pass firemen confined
the blaze to the paint booth.
Penry was the only person in
the booth at time of the explo
sion. He suffered third degree
burns over most of his body.
Firemen said cause of. the ex
plosion was not determined.
BOND ISSUE PASSES
Eagle Point Voters of the city
of Eagle Point approved a bond
issue of $15,000 for additional
fire equipment yesterday by a
22-vote majority, according to
Mayor Fred M. Bruegger. The
vote was 51 yes and 29 no. The
vote, a re-electioa, confirmed the
earlier balloting results.
O'Dwyer's Attack
On News Reporter
Creates Incident7
Mexican Newspaper
Says Incident Serious
Mexico City (U.R) Mexico's
leading newspaper. El Univer
sal, Wednesday described as "a
serious incident" a press confer
ence at which United States Am
bassador William O'Dwyer an
grily denounced United Press
Bureau Chief Robert Prescott
for a story about O'Dwyer's fu
ture plans.
Prescott said today he would
stand' on his dispatch of Tuesday
which quoted friends of O'Dwy
er as hinting that the ambassa
dor had considered become a
Mexican citizen when he retires
from diplomatic service.
Serious Incident Charged
El Universal bannered the
story of the. embassy press con
ference under the headline:
'Scandal About O'Dwyer Over
Whether He Is Thinking of Na
tionalizing Himself Mexican." A
sub-head read: "? In Order to
Elude- the- Action of Justice?"
The story said that the form
er mayor of New York "provok
ed a serious incident yesterday
upon insulting and menacing
cholerically Robert Prescott,
manager in Mexico of the Unit
ed Press, in the presence of a
large group of diplomats and
foreign correspondents.
Maximum Insult
"The ambassador injured the
newspaperman, calling him 'bas
tard,' 'liar,' and other epithets
which in English are equivalent
to the maximum insult that
would be used in Mexico," the
newspaper continued.
"The incident occurred with
out Mr; O'Dwyer giving an op
portunity for the manager of
the United Press. of whom
he had been. a personal friend
to explain-. .'V . "'' j
v,'It seems that this suggestion
that-Mr. O'Dwyer would - re
main in Mexico, which one
could .interpret as a means of
refusing to present himself be
fore 'whatever authority might
ask an accounting of his acts,
was interpreted by Mr.- O'Dwy
er as a personal . off ense, as a
maneuver to make him 'admit
indirectly and tacitly the guilt
which his enemies in various
illicit -businesses have attributed
to him,'' ,the story said.. .
Prescott said his dispatch ac
curately reflected information
he had obtained from members
of the American Legion who had
talked with the ambassador:
Legionnaires said he told
them privately his ideas were
"somewhat nebulous" but he
was giving "plenty of thought"
to a decision whether to return
to New York and resume his
law practice or remain in his
"adopted country."
Prescott asked O'Dwyer if it
would be all right to quote his
friends. .
O'Dwyer replied, "suit your-;
self."
Corvallis (U.R) Monte Blue,
Hollywood radio and screen ac
tor, will participate . in the 7th
annual .Shrine trek to Mary's
peak Sunday.
3 Days of Searching
For Dunkin Fruitless
Three, days of intensive work
by five, state police officers,
aided by a dog, have proved
fruitless in the month-bid search
for George Baker Dunkin, who
is wanted for the June 24 fatal
shooting of State Policeman Phil
Lowd, Police Capt. Paul Parson
said today. .
The officers, using a dog
trained for K-9 service with the
Army, combed three areas of
northern Jackson county Sun
day, Monday and Tuesday, Gapt.
Parson, police detachment com
mander here, reported.
Officers still feel that Dunkin
is in the vast, rugged and for
ested area on the Jackson-Douglas
county line. But Captain Par
son said they are "stumped" as
to how Dunkin may be located in
the 100 or more square miles
w'here he cap roam virtually at
will. :-...
Won't GiTe Up
Sgt. Mark O. Sullivan, a game
enforcement; officer, is in charge
of the continuing search for Dun
kin. There is no thought of giving
up, Captain Parson emphasized,
and he is confident that sooner
or later Dunkin ' will be appre
hended. One of the reasons leading the
police to believe that Dunkin is
still in the area is the fact that
he has spent most of bis life in
DR. RALPH E. GREEN
Funeral Services Thursday
Funeral Services
1:30 p.m. Thursday
For Dr. R. E.Green
Private funeral services for
Dr. Ralph Edison Green, 73,
who died Tuesday, will be held
at Perl Funeral home Thursday
at 1:30 p.m. with the Rev. J. M.
B. Gill, assistant pastor of St.
Mark's Episcopal church, offi
ciating. Concluding services will
be at Siskiyou Memorial park.
The body will lie in state at
the funeral home from 11:30
a.m. to .1 p.m. Thursday. It is
the request of the family that
flowers be omitted.
Dr. Green was a prominent
member of the medical profes
sion in Jackson county from
1920, when he moved here from
the midwest, -until 1949, when
he retired from the management
of the Community hospital lab
oratory, which he founded. Dr.
Green retired from active prac
tice in 1939., .
Born at Chicago August 20,
1878, Dr. Green received his
education at Rush Medical
school, Chicago. He served a
two-year internship at Milwau
kee, Wis., and took two years of
post graduate study in Vienna,
Austria.
For several years he was con
nected with the Community hos
pital at Creston, Iowa, before
moving to Medford. From 1920
until 1939 Dr. Green was asso
ciated with Dr. R. W. Stearns
here.
In 1906, Dr. Green was mar
ried in Fontanelle, Iowa, to Jen
nie Faurote, who survives. Oth
er survivors include a daughter,
Mrs. Clara J. Munter, San Jose,
Calif.; a son, Ralph E. Green Jr.,
Merced, Calif.; two grandchil
dren, Mrs. Nancy Munter Kane,
Salinas, Calif., and Robert Edi
son Munter, San Jose, and a
great grandson, Robert Edison
Kane, Salinas.
Dr. Green was a member of
the board of directors of the
Jackson County . Savings and
Loan association and had served
on the Medford school board for
more than 20 years. He was a
member of the Elks lodge and a
life member of the Sons of the
American Revolution.
the . woods and - "doesn't know
any other way to live." An ex
pert woodsman and a crack rifle
shot, Dunkin could subsist almost
indefinitely in the forest, pro
vided he is able to obtain a few
staple necessities.
Many rumors and reports con
cerning Dunkms movements
have been reported to police,
ana each is carefully checked
Captain Parson reported. One of
these was that he appeared at a
store at Trail, and obtained gro
ceries; another was that his
tracks had been found (which in
this case turned out to have been
tracks made by someone else).
Few such reports have been of
any value. - . -Many
Suggestions
State - officers have been- de
luged by suggestions and advice
as to how Dunkin can be cap
tured, some of them logical sug
gestions which had already been
put into effect, and others fairly
fantastic.
A reward for information lead
ing to the capture of Dunkin has
been offered -by business and
professional people of Medford
It now stands at $300. In the
event Dunkin is not captured for
a year, or if he is apprehended
through police efforts, the money
will go to the widow of Officer
Lowd,
County Officials
Unjustly Criticized,
Report Indicates
Ingredient Excess
Blamed in Fault
Jackson county's grand jury,
in a unanimous report on the
fety of the county bridge at
Rogue River, said today that "all
evidence indicates that the
bridge is entirely safe in all re
spects." The report also deplored the
fact that "some county officials"
have been "unjustly criticized,
without any basis for such criti
cism."' in connection with the
unage. ,
The report reviewed the case,
which opened on May 28 when
a thie-square-foot section of the
concrete gave way. The reinforc
ing steel did not give way. "and
would have supported traffic
without danger," the report said.
Cement to Laboratory
As a result of the failure, por
tions of the concrete were sent
to the state highway laboratory,
and the examination showed that
the concrete in the area of the
failure was lighter and of poorer
quality than specified, the grand
jury said. This was the cause of
the failure, and was brought
about by too much "air entrain
ing agent" (a material added in
small quantities to permit the
use oi less water and to mix the
water more evenly).
"Such an error could have
been made and not detected be
cause the appearance of the wet
concrete would be the same as
other concrete," the jury added.
It also reported that it has ex
amined other sections of the
bridge, and considered engineers
reports which, with one excep
tion, indicate there is no neces
sity for tearing these sections
out for repairs, although County
Engineer Paul Rynning has indi
cated he plans to do so anyway.
No Repairs Needed
After inspecting the' bridge;
the jury said, "it is the unani
mous opinion that the hrirfoo ,-,-
fleets an ' outstanding ink -
bridge construction and, actually
it appears that there is no need'
whatsoever for the making of
any repairs; that unfortunately,
this grand jury was also misled'
by examining certain published
pictures that appeared in The
Times, published in Rogue River,
which pictures give a completely
erroneous impression . . ."
The report praised Rvnninir
for his planned repairs because
it will "serve to give the people
U1 ""Bue mver a ieeiing of com
plete peace of mind in using the
bridge."
In deploring the criticism of
county officials, the jury said "it
is the considered opinion of the
members of this grand jury that
the feeling of the people of
Rogue River was brought about
by unfortunate reckless state
ments and wild rumors which
were not supported by facts."
The jury's report also pointed
out that several witnesses, in
cluding state engineers and
others, Maxwell Thayer, pub
lisher of The Times, and bridge
inspectors, appeared before the
jury.
'Human Element' Blamed
Rynning today said that a mis
take such as that resulting in the
failure resulted entirely from "a
human element, which in this
case couldn't be helped. We do
not know whether the inspector,
truck driver or 'batcher' are to
blame."
In other business, the grand
jury indicted George Baker Dun
kin for the murder of Officer
Phil Lowd; Everett S. Baker,
60, route 1, box 181, Gold Hill,
on four counts charging sodomy;
Mrs. Rosie Leland Peebler, gen
eral delivery, Rogue River, and
Arthur E. Hanson, Reviera apart
ments. Grants Pass, on a charge
of contributing to the delin
quency of a minor; and Wayne
Russell Myers, Camp White, for
assault while armed with a dan
gerous weapon.
Myers was arraigned in circuit
court yesterday and entered a
plea of innocent.
United States May Buy
British Guided Missile
Paris U.R) The United
States may buy a sensational
British guided missile, equipped -with
supersonic "brains," and
designed eventually to leave the
present day fighter plane pilot
without a job, military authori
ties said Wednesday.
The new missile is a 2,000-rnile-an-hour
rocket that steers
itself and can out-maneuver the
world's fastest operational
planes. Its mechanical "brains"
work faster than those of the
smartest humans.
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